Late July update

These photos are from a couple weeks ago, but I didn't get around to posting them until now. Here's Farmer Eric taking a quick break from the blackberry harvest.


This was our second eggplant.

I took this to show how tall the sunflowers have gotten, but just wait till the next post...
For you northerners out there, this is what okra plants look like. And believe it or not, fresh okra actually tastes good!
Here's a weird beetle that was on the pole beans.
And here's a sunflower getting ready to blossom...

Lemon Cuke and Okra

I think the lemon cucumber vines are definitely dying. But it was worth the two we got!




We also ate some okra for the first time yesterday. I'd been under the mistaken impression that you could just let the pods grow really big, but apparently you're actually supposed to get them when they're small. These turned out to be pretty fibrous. What can I say, we're yankees.


Sorry not to be more amusing; I slept in my office last night. Tell your Congressperson to push for this damn health bill so I can get back to being moderately coherent!

Saturday's harvest

Well, here are the lemon cucumbers. The plants seem to be wilting and shriveling and dying, and maybe taking the cantaloupes with them (damn you, sickly cucurbits!) but we got these two lovelies. Eric's out of town so I'll wait for him for the tasting.

Less in need of identification is the first eggplant. Cute, right?

In the interest of full disclosure...

... I feel I should make clear that the purple carrots aren't purple all the way through.

Now that that's out of the way: the garden is suddenly full of babies!
Cantaloupe:

Lima beans (the pod is sort of in the middle of the shot, just north of center):

Eggplant:

A lemon cucumber:

And fairy-tale eggplant:

All so tiny and cute! Plenty of grandchild and great-grandchild surrogates to choose from!